weaponing

Verb

weapon (third-person singular simple present weapons, present participle weaponing, simple past and past participle weaponed)

1. (transitive) To equip with a weapon; to arm.
   • […] the friends of the country and of the equal rights of all men, the friends of enfranchising the black man and of weaponing his hand for defense; the friends of taking the governments of these rebel States out of the hands of their rebel possessors, […]1868, Henry Wilson, History of the Reconstruction Measures of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, 1865-68, page 425

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